From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T00:09:29+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems working with non-gems libs?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:40:19 +0100, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
[snip]
> I had to add this before to make it find log4r:
> require "rubygems"
> require_gem "log4r"
> 
> Does that mean that if I start using rubygems, I'll have to edit 
> ruby code not based on gems?


Place this file within Ruby's path and set the env variable.

server> setenv RUBYOPT "rgemreq"
server> expand -t2 gemreq.rb 
module Kernel
  alias old_require require 
  def require(filename)
    begin
      old_require(filename)
    rescue LoadError
      old_require("rubygems")
      require_gem(filename)
    end
  end
end # module Kernel
server>


Then you should be able to do it.

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Simon Strandgaard